What’s it all about?
At the most recent United Nations General Assembly, at the end of September 2015, the world ushered in a new set of goals. They are called the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
The Global Goals are a set of 17 goals for us to achieve three really big things by 2030:
- End extreme poverty
- Reduce inequality
- Protect the planet
Learn more about these goals and what they mean to you as a global citizen.
What will we cover?
The new set of Global Goals follow on from the Millennium Development Goals, which stood from 2000 to 2015. They had some successes and promoted access, opportunity and environmental sustainability.
In this class we will learn, share, discuss, debate and ultimately be empowered to see as much social, environmental and global justice in the world as possible by 2030. We will look at:
- Background to the Global Goals and the Millennium Development Goals as well as current global topics and issues.
- What is a global citizen and how you can be a good one?
- What are the Global Goals and what do they mean for the global community, Australia, our local community and us as people?
- Can we really end extreme poverty, inequality and ensure environmental sustainability?
- Some success stories.
- Teaspoons of change – help vs harm.
- Tips, techniques and takeaways for us to achieve the Global Goals.
Who will be teaching?
d’Arcy is a humanitarian, educator, presenter, traveller, campaigner and enjoys new places and new people! In the past 15 years he’s been fortunate to travel, teach and volunteer in over 80 countries learning and experiencing along the way. The three hardest (and most frequent) questions he gets asked are what is your job, where do you live and how do you make money?
He is very keen to share some insights and learning with many years working on-the-ground in development projects and just as much time in advocacy, campaigning and awareness-raising.
d’Arcy was glued at the hip to the MDGs and is deeply embedded in the new Global Goals as he wrote the teacher’s guide for the World’s Largest Lesson as a part of the Project Everyone launch for the Global Goals. He is also passionate about not only doing work helping others but also his own personal choices, decisions and actions to have a positive impact on people and the planet to be the most active and effective global citizen he can be.
To get a few ideas of the things he does including building tiny self-sufficient homes and walking through Japan have a look at his general blog, on Facebook and on Twitter @darcylunn.